Charles Halton
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1876-03-16
Place of Birth:Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Four explorers are summoned to Peru by the brilliant physicist Dr Thorkel. They discover a rich source of radium and a half-mad Thorkel who shrinks...

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous...

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a...

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)
Happily married for three years, Ann and David Smith live in New York. One morning Ann asks David if he had to do it over again, would he marry her?...

My Sister Eileen (1942)
Sisters Ruth and Eileen Sherwood move from Ohio to New York in the hopes of building their careers. Ruth wants to get a job as a writer, while Eileen...

Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)
Charlie Chan's investigation of a blackmail-induced suicide as a case of murder leads him into a world of magick and mysticism peopled with a stage...

3 Godfathers (1948)
Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their...

Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
Newspaper reporter Michael Ward plunges into a nightmare of guilt, fearing that his "evidence" has sentenced the wrong man to death.

Mama Loves Papa (1945)
A loose remake of the 1935 comedy of the same name. Thanks to the efforts of his social-climbing wife Jessie, furniture store employee Wilbur Todd is...

The Westerner (1940)
Drifter Cole Harden is accused of stealing a horse and faces hanging by self-appointed Judge Roy Bean, but Harden manages to talk his way out of it...

Whispering Footsteps (1943)
An Ohio bank clerk's life becomes a nightmare when his descriptions is a fit of a maniac killer.

The Saint in New York (1938)
A crime spree in New York forces the police commissioner to turn to Englishman Simon Templar, who fights lawlessness and corruption through...

Saboteur (1942)
Aircraft factory worker Barry Kane flees across the United States after he is wrongly accused of starting the fire that killed his best friend.

Across the Pacific (1942)
Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship...

Ellery Queen and the Perfect Crime (1941)
Several days after one of his company's dams burst, ruining the life savings of several investors, a shady power company president is found stabbed...

The Ghost Goes Wild (1947)
Young artist Monte Crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. To escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a...

Hideout (1949)
Philip Ford's crime thriller stars Lloyd Bridges as a city attorney who comes to the dawning realization that a jewelry heist may be behind the...

The Smiling Ghost (1941)
Elinor Bentley Fairchild's previous three grooms-to-be have either died or been maimed. Her aunt hires Lucky Downing to become engaged to her for a...

The Nevadan (1950)
A mysterious stranger crosses paths with an outlaw bank robber and a greedy rancher.

Unholy Partners (1941)
A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner.

Million Dollar Baby (1941)
A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Young People (1940)
Wendy Ballantine's parents decide to retire from show biz so she can have a normal life. They are unwelcome in the small town until a storm lets the...

Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940)
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphilis.

Whispering Ghosts (1942)
A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the mysterious decade-old murder of a sea captain.

I Am the Law (1938)
With the aid of his former law students, a professor-turned-prosecutor battles corruption and organized crime.

Sing Me a Love Song (1936)
A young playboy inherits a financially-troubled New York City department store. To learn the business, he poses as a store clerk, and quickly falls...

Pick a Star (1937)
A Cinderella story of a young country girl who comes to Hollywood and achieves movie stardom with the help of a publicity man.

Mr. District Attorney (1941)
An assistant prosecutor and his spunky friend investigate a suddenly hot case.

A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)
Two nitwits decide to open a gas station.

Stolen Holiday (1937)
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.

The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
Grainbelt University has one attraction for Dobie Gillis - women, especially Pansy Hammer. Pansy's father, even though and maybe because she says...

The Girl Downstairs (1938)
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid...

Blossoms On Broadway (1937)
A young singer hopes to become a success on Broadway.

Rationing (1944)
A small-town butcher has problems coping with meat rationing.

Tugboat Annie Sails Again (1940)
Two rival tugboat captains compete for local business.

Gasoline Alley (1951)
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.

Behind the News (1940)
As suggested by its title, Behind the News was a "stop the presses!" yarn set in a big-city newsroom. Lloyd Nolan is top-billed as a cynical reporter...

Three Little Girls in Blue (1946)
Three sisters go to Atlantic City with hopes of finding rich husbands.

No Place to Go (1939)
An elderly war veteran feels lonely and unwanted while living with his son and daughter-in-law, but he learns his life still has purpose when he...

Indianapolis Speedway (1939)
A champion auto racer who unhappily learns his kid brother wants to enter the same profession rather than finish school.

Federal Man-Hunt (1938)
By a daring ruse and inside help, Pete Rennick, a noted criminal behind bars on federal charges, escapes from the prison, and all of the law-agencies...

Reno (1939)
A divorce lawyer prospers as a gambling tycoon.

Partners in Crime (1937)
Detective Hank Hyer investigates a blackmail case involving a candidate for mayor.

More Than a Secretary (1936)
When the co-owner of a secretarial school visits a magazine editor to find out why he runs through secretaries, she's mistaken for an applicant....

She Went to the Races (1945)
A group of scientists develop a system to pick winners at the racetrack. Comedy.

H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941)
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young...

The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
When the murdered body discovered by beautiful, vivacious socialite Melsa Manton disappears, police and press label her a prankster until she proves...

That Other Woman (1942)
A secretary by the name of Emily Borden comes up with a convoluted plan to get her boss to marry her which backfires after some bad advice.

Tombstone: The Town Too Tough to Die (1942)
Uneven version of Wyatt Earp vs. the Clanton Gang with a little romance thrown in haphazardly.

The Sickle or the Cross (1949)
Reverend John Burnside, American missionary in the Far East, prepares to return home after twenty years to take up the fight against Communism. The...

I'll Give a Million (1938)
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

Woman Chases Man (1937)
A pretty architect devises a wild scheme to convince a handsome millionaire to fund a new housing development project.

Up in Arms (1944)
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.

Wilson (1944)
The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post at Princeton to run for Governor of New Jersey,...

The Doctor Takes a Wife (1940)
A best-selling author of women's issues and a medical academic find it is to their mutual advantage to falsely claim that they are married.

20 Mule Team (1940)
It is 1892 in Death Valley and the yields from the Borax ore are getting so small that refining it is a losing proposition. The only thing that will...

Gasoline Alley (1951)
A young man tries to get rich by opening a diner. Comedy based on the popular comic strip.

Ready, Willing and Able (1937)
Two starving songwriters will only get funding if they get British actress Jane Clarke to star in their show.

A Man to Remember (1938)
On the day of his funeral, a dedicated smalltown doctor is remembered by his neighbors and patients.

A Star Is Born (1954)
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Storm at Daybreak (1933)
Sarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into...

Calling All Husbands (1940)
A henpecked husband and his bossy wife are due for a surprise when the wife's former boyfriend unexpectedly turns up.

Jesse James (1939)
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.

Carrie (1952)
Carrie's dreams of adventure in the big city are quickly squashed as she discovers all that awaits her there is a bleak life of grueling and poorly...

Nancy Drew... Reporter (1939)
While participating in a contest at a local newspaper in which school children are asked to submit a news story, local attorney Carson Drew's...

Three Sons o' Guns (1941)
Three reckless brothers dodge the draft then sign up and become men.

They Made Her a Spy (1939)
When her brother is killed by sabotage, Irene Eaton (Sally Eilers) joins the secret service and goes undercover to unroot the culprits.

Dodge City (1939)
In this epic Western, Wade Hatton, a wagon master turned sheriff, tames a cow town at the end of a railroad line.

Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
In this dramatized account of his early law career in Illinois, Abraham Lincoln is born into a modest log cabin, where he is encouraged by his first...

News Is Made at Night (1939)
Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal...

Lady of the Tropics (1939)
Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.

Swanee River (1939)
Swanee River is a 1940 American biopic about Stephen Foster, a songwriter from Pittsburgh who falls in love with the South, marries a Southern girl,...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Paris, France, 1482. Frollo, Chief Justice of benevolent King Louis XI, gets infatuated by the beauty of Esmeralda, a young Romani girl. The...

Dust Be My Destiny (1939)
Embittered after serving time for a burglary he did not commit, Joe Bell is soon back in jail, on a prison farm. His love for the foreman's daughter...

The Traveling Saleswoman (1950)
The daughter of a soap manufacturer heads to the wild and woolly west to sell her daddy's product.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well...

When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
When Willie leaves home to join the war effort he is all ready to become a hero, but he is only frustrated when his posting ends up to be in his home...

Sister Kenny (1946)
An Australian nurse discovers an effective new treatment for infantile paralysis, but experiences great difficulty in convincing doctors of the...

My Dear Secretary (1948)
A budding young writer thinks it's her lucky day when she is chosen to be the new secretary for Owen Waterbury, famous novelist. She is soon...

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich...

The Daring Caballero (1949)
Daring Cabellero was the third of producer Phil Krasne's Cisco Kid "B" westerns. Duncan Renaldo and Leo Carrillo return as Cisco and Pancho, roles...

Gangs of Chicago (1940)
A criminal uses his knowledge of the law for his not-very-legal purposes, betraying friends along the way.

The Moonlighter (1953)
Wes Anderson (Fred MacMurray) is caught cattle rustling and promptly jailed. The public is outraged, but, since Wes always worked at night, they...

The Body Disappears (1941)
Wealthy scion Peter DeHaven, about to marry socialite Christine Lunceford, wakes up after bachelor party revelry to find he's been turned invisible...

It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
A young turn-of-the-century newspaper man finds he can get hold of the next day's paper. This brings more problems than fortune, especially as his...

Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950)
Joe Palooka encounters gangsters and tries to alert the law.

Foreign Correspondent (1940)
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an...

Talent Scout (1937)
A Hollywood heartthrob helps a small-town girl achieve stardom.

The Town Went Wild (1944)
Comedy concerning two feuding fathers dealing with the shocking news that their sons were switched at birth, meaning that one of their daughters is...

There's One Born Every Minute (1942)
A nine-year-old Elizabeth Taylor made her film debut in this lively comedy. She plays the spoiled-brat daughter of a pudding manufacturer who has...

They Asked For It (1939)
In this crime drama, the owner and chief editor of a newspaper gets together with two college pals and begins looking into the strange death of an...

Penrod's Double Trouble (1938)
When a young boy disappears, a man desperate for the offered reward money turns up with an identical child.

The Lady from Cheyenne (1941)
Fictionalized story of the 1869 adoption of women's suffrage in Wyoming Territory. In the new-founded railroad town of Laraville, Boss Jim Cork hopes...

Virginia City (1940)
Union officer Kerry Bradford escapes from a Confederate prison and races to intercept $5 million in gold destined for Confederate coffers. A...

Henry Aldrich, Editor (1942)
Appointed editor of his high school newspaper, hapless Henry becomes intrigued by a series of mysterious fires. A mild, timid little fellow named...

Friendly Persuasion (1956)
The story of a family of Quakers in Indiana in 1862. Their religious sect is strongly opposed to violence and war. It's not easy for them to meet the...

Midnight Manhunt (1945)
Two reporters search for a missing body in a wax museum.

In Old California (1942)
Boston pharmacist Tom Craig comes to Sacramento, where he runs afoul of local political boss Britt Dawson, who exacts protection payment from the...

Summer Holiday (1948)
Danville, Connecticut at the turn of the century. Young Richard Miller lives in a middle-class neighborhood with his family. He is in love with the...

Here Comes the Groom (1951)
Foreign correspondent Pete Garvey has 5 days to win back his former fiancée, or he'll lose the orphans he adopted.

Government Girl (1943)
An aviation engineer and a government secretary are thrown together by the war effort.

If You Knew Susie (1948)
In the small town of Brookford, everybody can trace their ancestors back to the Revolutionary War, except Sam and Susie Parker. One day, however,...

Lillian Russell (1940)
Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

Little Nellie Kelly (1940)
Nellie Kelly, the daughter of Irish immigrants, patches up differences between her father and maternal grandfather while rising to the top on...

The Man with Nine Lives (1940)
Dr. Leon Kravaal develops a potential cure for cancer, which involves freezing the patient. But an experiment goes awry when authorities believe...

They Drive by Night (1940)
Joe and Paul Fabrini are Wildcat, or independent, truck drivers who have their own small one-truck business. The Fabrini boys constantly battle...

I Love You Again (1940)
Boring businessman Larry Wilson recovers from amnesia and discovers he's really a con man...and loves his soon-to-be-ex wife.

Lucky Partners (1940)
Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results.

Look Who's Laughing (1941)
Fibber McGee enlists the help of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy in enticing an aircraft manufacturer to build a factory in the small town of...

Dance Hall (1941)
Singer Lili Brown is attracted to dance hall manager Duke till she realizes he does that to all the girls. Nice guy Duke sets her up with composer...

Three Girls About Town (1941)
Faith and Hope Banner, sisters, are "convention hostesses" in a hotel. A body is discovered next door as the magician's convention is leaving and the...

The Spoilers (1942)
When honest ship captain Roy Glennister gets swindled out of his mine claim, he turns to saloon singer Cherry Malotte for assistance in his battle...

Blonde Inspiration (1941)
A writer of pulp Westerns cranks out more words than his editor and publisher want to pay for.

Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936)
The partners of stage-producer J. J. Hobart gamble away the money for his new show. They enlist a gold-digging chorus girl to help get it back by...

The Adventurer (1917)
A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked...

Sudden Money (1939)
Promises of happier times dawn for the financially distressed Patterson family when father Sweeney and brother-in-law Archibald "Doc" Finney win a...

The Great Mr. Nobody (1941)
A publicity man promotes his newspaper, but finds his boss always steals the credit.

Penrod and His Twin Brother (1938)
Penrod Schofield's mischievous dog, Duke, is falsely accused of biting Penrod's spoiled friend, Rodney.

I Was a Prisoner on Devil's Island (1941)
A ship's officer is sentenced to Devil's Island for murder after a fatal brawl.

Tobacco Road (1941)
Shiftless Jeeter Lester and his family of sharecroppers live in rural Georgia where their ancestors were once wealthy planters. Their slapstick...

Come and Get It (1936)
An ambitious lumberjack abandons his saloon girl lover so that he can marry into wealth, but years later becomes infatuated with the woman's daughter.

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
It's the hope that sustains the spirit of every GI: the dream of the day when he will finally return home. For three WWII veterans, the day has...

Room Service (1938)
Broke Gordon Miller tries to land a backer for his new play while he has to deal with with the hotel manager trying to evict him and his cast.

Shadows in the Night (1944)
A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.

Honor Among Lovers (1931)
Jerry Stafford falls for his secretary, Julia Traynor, but instead she marries a shady character who causes trouble for both of them.

Penrod and Sam (1937)
A boy (Billy Mauch) and his gang catch bank robbers using their clubhouse as a hide-out.

Priorities on Parade (1942)
Band leader Johnny Draper auditions his band, the Dixie Pixies, at the Eagle Aircraft Co., hoping to be hired to play for the workers in the plant....

The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
Teenager Susan Turner, with a severe crush on playboy artist Richard Nugent, sneaks into his apartment to model for him and is found there by her...

Lady Scarface (1941)
A Chicago gang led by Slade carries out an audacious brokerage robbery. Lieutenant Bill Mason takes the case, continuing his friendly-enemy...

Ex-Champ (1939)
A former prizefighter tries to help his son pay off his gambling debts.

Singin' in the Corn (1946)
Judy McCoy, a fortune teller with a circus, learns she has inherited some property and heads west to collect. When she arrives in the desert ghost...

The Fighting Guardsman (1945)
A French Baron robs Louis XVI like Robin Hood.

Address Unknown (1944)
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.

Black Legion (1937)
When a hard-working machinist loses a promotion to a Polish-born worker, he is seduced into joining the secretive Black Legion, which intimidates...

A Very Young Lady (1941)
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.

Rhapsody in Blue (1945)
Fictionalized biography of George Gershwin and his fight to bring serious music to Broadway.

Laughter (1930)
Zeigfeld Follies beauty Peggy marries an older man, C. Morton Gibson. Although she soon grows tired of their sedate life, she refuses the attentions...

Dead End (1937)
Mobster "Baby Face" Martin returns home to visit the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother, who rejects him because of...

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938)
Colonel Ferris, a wealthy farmer in northern California, is strongly opposed to hydraulic mining, a new method developed during the gold rush of the...

Broadway Ballyhoo (1935)
In this musical short, three barkers for a New York City sightseeing bus drum up customers with songs and nightclub tours.

The Ghost Comes Home (1940)
Comic mayhem results when a small town pet store owner, mistakenly believed killed during a sea voyage, turns up very much alive.

Trouble at Midnight (1937)
Noah Beery Jr. stars as Kirk Cameron in the modern-day western Trouble at Midnight. Freshly discharged from WWI, Cameron goes into the dairy-farming...

Because of Him (1946)
A young woman who wants to break into the theater schemes to become the protege of a famous Broadway star.

You Can't Escape Forever (1942)
A demoted reporter (George Brent) and his girlfriend (Brenda Marshall) seek to expose a crime kingpin.

Penitentiary (1938)
The story of a D.A. who becomes a prison warden and winds up overseeing the sentence of a man he prosecuted.

One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Episodic look at the life of a minister and his family as they move from one parish to another.

The Adventures of Martin Eden (1942)
Author writes about his experiences sailing at sea, struggles to get his work published.

Behind the Mask (1917)
Financier Mark Harrold is responsible for the financial ruin and subsequent suicide of Stanton. Following his death, Stanton's daughter Margaret,...

The Fabulous Oliver Chantry (1953)
A newspaper columnist, critic and novelist suddenly becomes caretaker to an infant boy left by his parents who are being deported for what turns out...

General Electric Theater (1953)
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The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956)
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The Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1951)
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City Detective (1953)
Crime drama starring Rod Cameron as 43-year-old Bart Grant, a tough 1950s New York City police lieutenant.

Up The Workers (1973)
This comedy series lets you in on the secrets of industrial relations and management-workers consultations. Or at least how they happen at the...

Crossroads (1955)
An anthology series based on the activities of clergymen from different denominations.

Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958)
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